In an effort to actually, you know, blog on my blog, I am going to try and have theme days to jump start my writing. Not that I lack for words as anyone who knows me can tell you, but because I lack for focused sitting time at my computer (as anyone who knows me can tell you). So Fridays are for lists! I love lists. I make lists for everyday. My lesson plans are like a list. My to-do list, my grocery list, lists for parties I am planning. Running lists are everywhere. And I most certainly add stuff to my list that wasn't there to start with just so I can cross it off! So here's the pile of books I'm reading, just finished reading, or will be reading in the near future.
1. Loving the Little Years, by Rachel Jankovic
I wish I had this book like four years ago! It actually was recommended to me by a mom I met while buying stuff from her on a Facebook swap while I was pregnant with #4. But the library didn't have it so I didn't read it. Then my sister-in-law registered for it so I totally bought it for her so I could read it when she was done! I've read it twice now. I laughed, cried, and wished I had read it four years earlier! It's good with like three page chapters so that even moms of littles can read it! I even put it in Danny's to read pile.
2. Fit to Burst, by Rachel Jankovic
The sequel to Loving the Little Years I am in the middle of this one now. It was on my Christmas list and my sister-in-law got it for me (probably so she can read it when I'm done ;) ).
3. Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
This was recommended by the author of another book I just finished. It is the whole trilogy in one book about a girl's life in the 1880's in a small village in England. I'm a couple chapters in and so far it has not gripped me, so we'll see. I don't usually bail on a book, but this one may end up back at the library. P.S. It's also a mini-series so maybe I'll go that route...which is very unusual for me to choose TV over the book version.
4. The Mission of Motherhood, by Sally Clarkson
I started this when #1 was a baby. It was really good but was dealing with things in motherhood that I wasn't. Now, four kids later, I am dealing with things. So, it's back in my pile! I just finished The Life Giving Home, by Sally Clarkson and Sarah Clarkson, which has lots of good ideas for each month for making your home a lovely place to be--not just through decorations but celebrations, family time, hospitality, etc.
5. Dinner: A Love Story, by Jenny Rosenstrach
I just finished reading one of her other cookbooks called, How to Celebrate Everything, and loved it because it talks about family rituals (are you beginning to see a theme related to lists here?). It actually caught my eye on display near the checkout at the library because I have actually only been in my library's adult section twice. Yes, it is a cookbook, and yes there are recipes, but there is also story woven throughout. I actually read less of the recipes than the narration behind them.
6. The Book of God, by Walter Wangerin, Jr.
It is my goal to finish this book this year. I started it awhile ago and it is amazing, but then I must have started reading other things and it got pushed to the bottom of my pile. It tells the story of the Bible as a novel so you're reading chronologically the stories that you may already be familiar with. It definitely makes you see the stories differently and want to go back and read them again from the first account.
7. Garden of Truth, by Ruth Simons
A friend told me to follow Gracelaced on Instagram because the woman who ran it had six sons. I continue to follow, not because she has six sons (although anyone with a brood of single gender and/or six children definitely deserves awards), but because her words (and hashtags) speak to my heart. Then she came out with this book that she beautifully illustrated and said it was for those couple minutes you have sitting at a stop light or waiting in the pick up line. Guess what! I have a couple minutes! It's about all I have, and it's not while sitting at stop lights because we're usually caught up in a Adventures in Odyssey but it's something I doable for devotions. It was on my Christmas list and will also be borrowed by my sister-in-law when I'm done...but she's going to let me borrow her copy of Gracelaced, so it's fair!
8. The Brainy Bunch, by Kip and Mona Lisa Harding0
I've also already read this one but it was really good. The Harding's have ten children and have homeschooled all of them. At the time they wrote this the kids ages ranged from about 26 to 3. They believe in homeschooling for mastery of content and to finish school. Most of their children are taking college level classes at about age 12 and graduate high school with their bachelor's degree! Since I am not currently homeschooling a kindergartner who is scoring at first and second grade levels on his placement tests with a four-year-old brother already recognizing sight words and able to sound out words I thought I better read this one again!
So there's my reading list. Feel free to ask about any of the books I'm reading if you want to know more. You can purchase them from the links above, or (what I do) check them out at your library. If your library doesn't own them you can request they buy them. My local library lets us request 30 titles a month!
Do you write things you've already done on your to-do list to? Leave me a comment!
Blessings!
Jenna
P.S. If you click on any of the links above they will take you to Amazon. Since I'm sure this is not your first blog ever read, you know that I get a small percentage for linking you up with what you were already interested in. Please know that I only ever refer what I already support. :)
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